Isolating coccoliths from sediment for geochemical analysis

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Halloran, Paul R ^a,b   Rust, Nigel ^c   Rickaby, Rosalind E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clay; Coccolith; Coccolithophore; Geochemistry; Sorting; Trace element

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949119372     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002228     Document Type: Article

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